Centre Pompidou Expands into Seoul
The Centre Pompidou, Paris, introduced right now that it’s opening a department in Seoul. The French modern artwork establishment will associate with South Korean finance and retail conglomerate Hanwha on the museum, which is able to occupy Tower 63, the reflective glass skyscraper housing Hanwha’s headquarters. Pompidou Middle Hanwha Seoul, because the establishment is tentatively named, can be designed by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte and is scheduled to open in early 2025. In response to an settlement signed March 19 by Pompidou president Laurent Le Bon and Hanwha Tradition Basis chair Shin Hyunwoo, the collaboration between the 2 entities will run for 4 years, throughout which period the Seoul outpost will stage a complete of eight monographic exhibitions, two per yr, that includes works from the gathering of the Centre Pompidou. The Korea Occasions reviews that Hanwha is paying $21 million for the suitable to make use of the Pompidou trademark. The French museum had earlier thought of Busan and Incheon as potential satellite tv for pc places.
The information comes simply days after the Pompidou revealed plans for an outpost in Saudi Arabi’s burgeoning AlUla area. The French museum is partnering with the Royal Fee for AlUla on that endeavor, which is able to yield a large-scale museum centering artwork from Southwest Asia, North Africa, and South Asia, with a deal with Land artwork and digital artwork of this century. The Saudi outpost is slated for completion in 2028–29 and is a part of the Imaginative and prescient 2030 initiative launched by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in an try to ascertain a extra progressive cultural profile for the nation and transfer its financial system away from a reliance on oil.
With the Seoul and AlUla branches within the works, Pompidou—which has outposts in Metz, France; Malaga, Spain; and Shanghai—will embody a half dozen museums, together with its flagship Paris establishment.